The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression

by Angus Burgin

Book Overview

Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. "The Great Persuasion" is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world. Conservatives often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674058135
• ISBN13: 9780674058132
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"